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I find it really surprising that they have done it once again - released a device with a full RGB LED,but without any support for it in the software by default. Pretty much like my old Nexus One, the Galaxy Nexus can only blink in white for me. Has anybody found a way to use all colours of the LED for different notifications?
Tweet deck for blinks a yellowish hue, although i did download led tester from the market to make it was working and can display all the colours i can throw at it. I don't think you can set custom colours though I am sure a rom will be baked soon with that option though.
Try Blink: https://market.android.com/details?id=imoblife.blink&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImltb2JsaWZlLmJsaW5rIl0.
This worked well on my Nexus One.
Blink does not work, but application called Light Flow works just fine.
Blink does not work unfortunately.
I've had Blue and Green notifications plus the standard white so far - would be nice to be fully customisable as standard though.
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gambiting said:
Blink does not work, but application called Light Flow works just fine.
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Cool. Glad you could find one that works!
I'll remember light flow for when I can get my hands on one here in the US.
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
Tung_meister said:
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
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mine is as well, lets hope this is normal
Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
majikdragoon said:
Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
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You sure, it asked me for root when I had it, and I believe it was stated in it's description too, even though it adds itself to the accessibilities.
Surprisingly it works fine without changing anything other than the colors wanted
no root required
Tung_meister said:
when mine blinks white it looks more like a mix of colours rather than all white, like green at the bottom, abit of red in the middle and like a purple colour towards the top. is this just mine or is everyones like this?
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That's because its and RGB led and to make white, all 3 colours will be on
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Light Flow is amazing, thanks
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Evostance said:
That's because its and RGB led and to make white, all 3 colours will be on
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ye I understand that I've experienced RGB LED's before but not with such bad colour bleed through so I was just checking it wasn't my device that was at fault
majikdragoon said:
Light Flow is free and works really well. Lets you customize notification colours, sounds, duration etc from within the app... and it doesn't require root.
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It only works while the program is running or "minimized". If you close it in task switcher it stops working.
Thanks for that, seems to work perfectly.
Tung_meister said:
ye I understand that I've experienced RGB LED's before but not with such bad colour bleed through so I was just checking it wasn't my device that was at fault
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I have noticed the same colour bleed and it has a very very slight flicker as the light pulses too.
I'm glad this isn't a fault, though I would feel better if other people who read this could just confirm their Galaxy Nexus does the same thing??
I can see the three distinct colours, yeah. It's almost like they have separate R, G and B LED's on the circuit board really close together instead of one RGB one. If you get my drift. Doesn't bother me though.
jmbillings said:
I can see the three distinct colours, yeah. It's almost like they have separate R, G and B LED's on the circuit board really close together instead of one RGB one. If you get my drift. Doesn't bother me though.
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Thanks for the reassurance buddy!
I am positive that I am being paranoid about this but I thought I'd ask you guys anyway - when you guys use light flow to control the LED - if its a mixed color like, white, orange, cyan - do you see residue of indiviual led colors around the notification light? I mean when I do white I see a tint of green in one corner of the notification area, a bit of yellow, a bit of red but from a distance it looks white. I know white is a mix of all those colors but I just wanted to confirm that the LEDs on my phone arent out of place.
The notification LED isn't uniform; that's normal. It's good enough, you shouldn't bothered by it, as long as you can tell red from orange and the likes.
Thanks for the response!
Rgb led.
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i see the mixed colors as well for the color white. my nexus one LED did not do this, but i figure it's normal since samsung used RGB to make up the LED. they just must have positioned them differently in such a way that there is slight bleed thru. no big deal to me.
RogerPodacter said:
i see the mixed colors as well for the color white. my nexus one LED did not do this, but i figure it's normal since samsung used RGB to make up the LED. they just must have positioned them differently in such a way that there is slight bleed thru. no big deal to me.
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Our Nexus Ones had a large translucent trackball to further mix the colors....
Yep, whatever diffuser they put over the top of the rgb led doesn't mix colors very well at all. I almost miss the Nexus One track ball.
Could be worse, the Nexus S doesn't even have a notification LED.
it will get bad when we're *****ing about phones that didn't holographically project who sent you a text or email. but then again who wants to see your grandma naked?
The other day I noticed that my once stock white colored notification LED was acting strangely. It now is multicolored and seems to have a slight flicker when it goes off. I went through Samsung US support steps, removed apps, then full factory reset. Still same problem. I installed Light Flow and tested all colors. Most work but still with a bit of a flicker. White is not working. It displays in three colors, yellow pink and green/blue? I suppose my LED has broken. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a solution? Samsung US will not support the repair as it is an international GSM phone.
Thank you.
casbar12 said:
The other day I noticed that my once stock white colored notification LED was acting strangely. It now is multicolored and seems to have a slight flicker when it goes off. I went through Samsung US support steps, removed apps, then full factory reset. Still same problem. I installed Light Flow and tested all colors. Most work but still with a bit of a flicker. White is not working. It displays in three colors, yellow pink and green/blue? I suppose my LED has broken. Has this happened to anyone else? Is there a solution? Samsung US will not support the repair as it is an international GSM phone.
Thank you.
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Yeah white isn't really white, its a combination of three colors. Its normal.. no biggie
Well mine is also like that..
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I have had my phone since January and it was always a white notification. My old Nexus One was also always a plain white notification. I am pretty sure thats what stock Android intends it to be. The multicolored just started. Either way Light Flow when set to White should display a white notification but it cannot. I am almost certain my LED is defective. Anyone else?
Ahmato27 said:
Yeah white isn't really white, its a combination of three colors.
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As proved by Newton:
White light is the effect of combining the visible colors of light in suitable proportions (the same present in solar light).
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Ok, so... no help here. Thanks anyway, guys.
I sure wish my LED could be fixed. <head down>
Everything you describe is normal.
You probably just never noticed it before.
I actually did notice it and that is why I have posted here. The notification light is supposed to be white. Not multicolored. I know this phone like the back of my hand. The led has changed.
Mine has been like exactly what you've described on both Nexus' that I've owned.
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It's a tri-colored LED (red, green, blue).
It displays different colors by mixing those 3 primary colors.
To get white, it mixes all 3.
The 3 LED's aren't close enough together, so around the edges you'll see the individual colors, but in the center it will appear white.
At certain distances/angles/lighting conditions, it can appear almost fully white.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrYDjXThLc
If you insist that it was pure white before, then somehow you had a white LED and it has transformed into a RGB LED.
I'm pretty sure no Galaxy Nexus's were shipped with a white LED, and certainly not ones that can transform.
AFAIK
The notification LED at the bottom of the phone has always been a 3 color LED. Red, green and blue. To get white it turns on all 3. Other colors are variations on a theme.
Thank you, terryhau.
My notification light does not look like it does in that video. It is now mostly pink with a green hue no the bottom portion and a purple/blue color in the top left hand portion. It DID NOT used to be like this.
I guess I need to post a pic somehow.
Maybe something like an update or .apk has changed the behavior of the LEDs like reduced the output which would explain why you now see all 3 colors instead of white.
Wilsonium said:
Maybe something like an update or .apk has changed the behavior of the LEDs like reduced the output which would explain why you now see all 3 colors instead of white.
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I did a full factory reset hoping that may be the case. No luck. This hasn't happened to anyone else?
casbar12 said:
Thank you, terryhau.
My notification light does not look like it does in that video. It is now mostly pink with a green hue no the bottom portion and a purple/blue color in the top left hand portion. It DID NOT used to be like this.
I guess I need to post a pic somehow.
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The video shows that it is not pure white, but a mixture of colors. Kind of hard to see because of the bad camera.
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The video shows that it is not pure white, but a mixture of colors. Kind of hard to see because of the bad camera.
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Yes. And in the video it shows what my led looked like about three days ago. It no longer displays that way. Now the three colors are glaringly obvious with a bit of a flicker as it fades out.
I am having the same issue. I have a galaxy nexus from sprint and the play store. the sprint one is perfect. all colors requiring a mix of colors show perfectly like pink, magenta, lime etc. However the play one does not. its almost like its off center so with lime you will see a bit of green and then orange on one side. Pink is slightly pink on one section then almost white every where else. Purple is purple and then has a nice section of blue on one edge.
So my question is those who have replaced your screen is the led attached to it or is it part of the speaker daughter board?
My led is darned close to white (accepting Newton's physical laws etc.). I'm thinking that if yours has changed then perhaps it's damaged, but perhaps your rom settings have (been) changed and your notification colour is now set differently (by default). What rom are you using?
I'm using CM9, which nominally allows me to have notifications in different colours for different apps. I find when I pick colours from the chooser, though I'm meant to have complete control over the colour, in reality I can get white, red, blue, green, and different rotations of rainbows.
Clarification: when I say I can get 'red, blue, and green', I mean properly: I get a solid circle of whichever one of those colours I'm aiming for. But anything else (e.g. yellow, orange, cyan, magenta, lilac, etc.) will be a the chosen colour in a small part of the circle, and an array of all the other colours elsewhere in the rest of the circle.
i can get all those colors too... but only on a portion of the window. white will show green, blue and pink on the side.. but not just around the edges. I think this is what the OP was talking about. I honestly do not think its a software issue as i am running lightflow on both of my nexus's and one is has run cm9 and AOKP witht he same results. It has to be a hardware issue. So if any one can answer this, is the LED attached to the screen or the lower speaker daughter board?
For about a month now iv noticed that the notification light flashes 3 different colors at once... pinkish red, greenish blue and yellowish white.
Im pretty sure when i got the phone it was just white.. and dark blue for text messages.
Is it me or should it be white and blue only?
I get white for messaging and blue for FB notifications. I haven't noticed a red yet, but it may be reserved for notifications that I don't receive.
waltah! said:
I get white for messaging and blue for FB notifications. I haven't noticed a red yet, but it may be reserved for notifications that I don't receive.
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sorry i dont think you understand.
I used to get a white light.. but now that white light has turned in to faded multiple colors.. the colors i mentioned above. They are all together.
Well thats what im asking if it was always like that or not.
I guess i got my answer though...
thanks.
Twitter - Green
Facebook - Blue
Email/Messages - White (but you can see a mixture of pink and green in it)
Those are the colours I usually get.
hmm i dont get different colors on different messages but like the op a 3color whitish. i bought the device 2nd hand and it was always like this
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grognaz said:
hmm i dont get different colors on different messages but like the op a 3color whitish. i bought the device 2nd hand and it was always like this
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use this if you want different colors
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...jb25zdWx0aW5nLmFuZHJvaWQubGlnaHRmbG93bGl0ZSJd
And I use this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5jaGF0Y2hhdG1lb3cuZ25sIl0.
Geez, not a single person understood his question.
Yes my light blinks white but shows 3 colors too. This happens for many people as its been talked about before.
RogerPodacter said:
Geez, not a single person understood his question.
Yes my light blinks white but shows 3 colors too. This happens for many people as its been talked about before.
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Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
RedBlueGreen said:
For about a month now iv noticed that the notification light flashes 3 different colors at once... pinkish red, greenish blue and yellowish white.
Im pretty sure when i got the phone it was just white.. and dark blue for text messages.
Is it me or should it be white and blue only?
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that's how google led light is. you don't have a bad phone.. its default
RedBlueGreen said:
Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
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Yes, it is.
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RedBlueGreen said:
Thanks... but is it meant to be like that?
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Yes, if you look closely its Google colors. White, blue, red yellow, green in a little sphere
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Its just an overlooked hardware design by Samsung. No big deal.
With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?
kersh said:
With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?
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s3 led is same
How many colors do you need?
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How many colors do you need?
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Well, I have like 12 apps with notifications, and I would love to know what it is calling me, so, at least 6 7 to play with blink times or more like the nexus, not the 3 4 of the note 2.
If it can show the three primary light colours then doesn't that mean it can show at least the 7 colours? I don't know enough about led architecture to have a clue really.
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kersh said:
With my nexus the led have a lot of colours, white, yellow, lima, etc , but the note can't show only red, green and blue, the yellow or white doesn't exists as all of the other.
3 colours on the led? It is a crappy one worse than the one of the nexus one? Or maybe it is lightflow fault? Have the s3 the same problem?
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The color changes work fine for me.
Yellow and white are a little odd (you can see fringes of the three LEDS on the sides), but they are certainly distinct and don't look like any of the other colors.
- Frank
Light flow is great...but does not always work properly
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Try "Light manager"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5rb28ubGlnaHRtYW5hZ2VyIl0.